Paralympic Cheerleading Play Day

We had our second session as part of our Paralympic Cheerleading Project on the 3rd August 2025.

Because of summer holidays and other commitments we only had 8 participants but it was a great opportunity to work on some techniques for paired wheelchair users in the same stunt groups as we had four wheelchair using bases amongst the participants.

We found that with two wheelchair users the challenge is getting close enough to each other to keep the flyers over their spines comfortably. Putting the front wheels of the chair interconnected works to some degree for athletes, or sitting side-by-side and using partner stunt style grips seems to work really well.

Sitting with the chairs feet facing into each other

Side-by-side with a step-up

We also discussed up coming training dates, and the classification systems. Next training is planned for the 20th September.